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Ronan McMahon is a global real estate scout. He spends six months of every year on the road, finding and negotiating opportunity to buy low and make serious profit from capital appreciation, rental income, or a mixture of both.
He does this both for his own personal real estate portfolio and for members of a small and exclusive group called Real Estate Trend Alert. Only this group get details of the best deals he finds worldwide—in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
One of his biggest strengths is identifying markets that are due for an upswing in values—but where other investors aren’t looking yet.
He’s called it right countless times over his two decades of real estate investment and scouting:
Like 2000 in Ireland, ahead of what became known as the Celtic Tiger, a period of unrivaled and historic economic growth for the country—and its real estate market.He called it again in Panama, in 2004, when he predicted that values in Panama City were about to spiral quickly.
He did it in Northeast Brazil, in 2008, when the market was on the precipice of a huge rise in values.
And he was ahead of the big growth in Tulum on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, in 2009, when few investors had gotten in.
Ronan also knows how to spot the right crisis market—where a buyer can get in cheap now but profit massively as values return to where they should be…or even exceed that. He knows how to wait for the right “trigger moment” to play a crisis market.
He did that in Ireland, following its crisis in 2009. He bided his time to make a recommendation until 2011 when the first auctions started in the country.
Then he did it again in Spain and Portugal: This time, it was fire sales that provided the trigger moment, in 2013.
He acted again in Cabo, Mexico, in 2015, when a rare convergence of circumstances meant you could lock down a luxury home for a fraction of its true worth.
In each of those cases, a buyer who followed his recommendation could have doubled their money or more.
These are the kinds of buying moments Ronan McMahon identifies. Of course he spends six months out of every year taking research trips to get to those deals. That’s the difference between Ronan and some other so called “real estate experts.” He puts his money, his time, and his shoe leather into hunting down and negotiating the best deals worldwide, so that members of his group can profit.
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Land in the Tulum area on the southern edge of Mexico's Riviera Maya can be a strong opportunity...as long as it's the right land. On my recent scouting trip I put boots on the ground at more than a dozen interesting communities (including some planned lot communities). As long-time readers of Real Estate Trend Alert know, Tulum is stunning. It's home to some of the world's finest white-powder beaches...backed by palm trees that rustle in the Caribbean breezes.
In this month’s edition of Real Estate Trend Alert Insider, exclusive to RETA Lifetime members, Ronan talks to his key contact in Los Cabos, Mexico, Proto Pena. Proto is the man behind Ventanas, Cabo del Mar and is one of the most insightful and intelligent developers here, placing a strong emphasis on community.
In this month’s edition of Real Estate Trend Alert Insider, exclusive to RETA Lifetime members, Ronan talks to his key Panama contact, Alfredo Aleman, one of Panama City’s most influential and experienced developers.
Flick open my passport and you'll find stamps from countries all over the world. Look a bit closer and there's one country stamp that's in there more than any other...and that's Mexico. I've spent a lot of time scouting real estate in Mexico because of the real estate opportunities it offers. Here are three different destinations in Mexico that are on my radar right now.
The best beaches in Mexico are just 70 minutes down the coast from Cancun. Some are still deserted, dotted only with coconut palm trees and curious iguanas. Seabirds duck and dive overhead. It's a place of utter beauty and tranquility—azure blue water and total silence except for the roar of the surf. But it's not just about white-sand beaches here.
In the February edition of Real Estate Trend Alert Insider, Ronan chats to his contact on the ground in the Caribbean beach town of Placencia, Boris Mannsfeld. Boris talks about his past investments here, how he has profited, and how he intends on investing here in the future.
In this Real Estate Trend Alert Insider podcast, exclusive to you as a Lifetime RETA member, I talk to Jordan Clark, my contact on the ground in Northern Nicaragua, about some of the best and strongest deals that are presenting themselves in Northern Nicaragua right now. That includes one deal Jordan expects to make absurd Read more...: Real Estate Trend Alert Insider Podcast: The Strongest Deals in Northern Nicaragua